NFL to sell Super Bowl highlights on iTunes
Beginning the day after the Super Bowl, you’ll be able to download highlights as well as NFL Network post-game reaction and analysis on iTunes for $1.99 a pop. (Note this is the NFL selling this clips, not CBS.)
Survey: Some YouTube users watch less TV
A survey by Harris Interactive found that 32 percent of frequent YouTube users say they watch less TV as a result of visiting the site. To put this into perspective, 14 percent of U.S. online adults say they’re frequent YouTube users, which works out to 4.5 percent of online adults. Another interesting statistic: 73 percent of frequent YouTube users said they would visit the site less if pre-roll ads were tacked on the beginning of clips. Ouch. More stats…
Conflicting reports on the News Corp, ROO deal
Update: ValleyWag says the FIM folks were in the loop on the deal, which disputes the TechCrunch report which we posted earlier today: TechCrunch is reporting that execs at Fox Interactive Media, the internet arm of News Corp., learned about News Corp’s decision to invest in online video company ROO through a Wall Street Journal [...]
Gates goes on ‘Daily Show’ to plug Windows Vista
What better way to kick off the release of Windows Vista than with a visit to the geeks at the Daily Show? Head Geek Bill Gates did just that, and handled Jon Stewart’s cunning attempts at figuring out his password. (“Is it ‘Gates’? Did you ever have a pet when you were younger? What was [...]
Two Hollywood execs resurface with new company
Lloyd Braun, the top ABC programming exec who worked at Yahoo until two months ago, and Gail Berman, who was Fox’s top programming exec until 2005, have joined to create a production company to create entertainment for television, films and the internet.
Report: Online will be 20% of ad spending this year
Research and advice company Outsell projects that 20 percent of U.S. ad buys will be online in 2007. Outsell surveyed marketers to find out about companies’ ad-buying plans for the year. No surprise – the dollar shift continues to online. This year, those polled will spend about 18 percent more than they did in ’06. [...]
NBCU’s Wright: Old media must go digital now
From B&C: NBC Universal Chairman Bob Wright tells B&C that this is the last business cycle where an old-line media company can afford not to have at least 20%-30% of its business in digital. But he also says the digital component is not yet sufficient to boost the bottom line of companies with only “average” [...]
Hearst Argyle TV makes management changes
EVP Terry Mackin will now focus on digital media full-time at Hearst Argyle TV. Frank Biancuzzo, president and general manager of WISN-TV, will return to New York headquarters as senior VP and group head.
Kimberly Dozier returns to CBS newsroom
A warm “welcome back” to CBS News reporter Kimberly Dozier, who visited the New York newsroom today (Video), eight months after a car bomb nearly killed her in Iraq. Her co-workers Paul Douglas and James Brolan died in the May 29, 2006 attack, along with a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi translator. From CBSNews.com: “It’s [...]
SF Chronicle starts podcasting reader phone feedback
Give ‘em this – it’s novel. The San Francisco Chronicle has started a podcast of reader feedback phonecalls. The ones from the tinfoil hat crowd are a little too easy, but the one that addresses a question of grammar is more interesting. (Is “pilotless drone” redundant?) The page posts a listener’s call, another listener’s response [...]
Nielsen tracking obscure audience: college students
Pop quiz, students: What kind of rating does a show get if five million college students watch it in their dorms? Zero. At least, until now. Nielsen has begun to measure college students’ viewing habits, in a remarkably late effort to quantify what that obscure 18-22 audience is watching. It had been company policy not [...]
Newspapers, local TV news left behind in school
A survey of over 1,000 teachers found that 57 percent use national or international news websites as a source of news for teaching purposes, compared to 28 percent for daily newspapers and just 13 percent for local TV news. “Students do not relate to newspapers at all, any more than they would to vinyl records,” [...]
